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May 05

Can Facebook Open Graph Help Resurrect the Structured Blogging Initiative? -

In April 2010, both Facebook and Twitter announced separate efforts towards integrating semantic metadata into their core services. Facebook have launched their Open Graph protocol,…

Apr 29

"Galway Is A Mini San Francisco": 091 Labs Nurtures Creativity In Another Bay Area -

We have become used to the idea of innovation coming from corporate R&D divisions and university research departments. We seem to have forgotten that some of the key life-enhancing…

Apr 27

What If Your Car Could Tweet (Twitter Annotations) -

I was preparing some slides for a talk this evening on the Social Semantic Web, and with recent announcements from Facebook regarding the Open Graph API and also from …

Apr 26

Wanted: "Joined-Up" News Search for Grown-Ups via Linked Data -

All the information in the world and beyond falls into one of three categories.

Apr 21

WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell Questions Social Media Ads And Fears Regulations Because Of Facebook Privacy Screw Ups

Apr 14

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure,joy follows like a shadow that never leaves” — Buddha (via quote-book) (via tomnotes)

mikehudack: internetsnorkelwithzachrose: This book is awesome. In 1967, Seymour Papert invented a programming language for children called Logo. The premise of Logo is that there’s a turtle on a two-dimensional plane, and he’s holding a pen in his tail. You can give the turtle instructions to move forwards and backwards, turn any number of degrees, and raise and lower the pen. It makes pictures. (You can also set variables and group repetitive instructions into subroutines.) When I was nine years old I got to play with MicroWorlds, which was (and still is!) Logo with clip art. I was only into it for a couple years and I didn’t program a computer again until my senior year of college. Still, I had enough confidence to know that what I wanted could probably be made from subroutines and variables. So far, this book is about how Logo was conceived. Papert talks about how Euclid’s geometry is based on logic, Descartes’ is based on algebra, and Turtle Geometry is based on computation, on instructions that you can imagine and feel (e.g. how would you draw a circle in Logo? Make one step forward, turn one degree, repeat). And yeah, Lego named their robotics kits after this book.

mikehudack:

internetsnorkelwithzachrose:

This book is awesome. In 1967, Seymour Papert invented a programming language for children called Logo. The premise of Logo is that there’s a turtle on a two-dimensional plane, and he’s holding a pen in his tail. You can give the turtle instructions to move forwards and backwards, turn any number of degrees, and raise and lower the pen. It makes pictures. (You can also set variables and group repetitive instructions into subroutines.)

When I was nine years old I got to play with MicroWorlds, which was (and still is!) Logo with clip art. I was only into it for a couple years and I didn’t program a computer again until my senior year of college. Still, I had enough confidence to know that what I wanted could probably be made from subroutines and variables.

So far, this book is about how Logo was conceived. Papert talks about how Euclid’s geometry is based on logic, Descartes’ is based on algebra, and Turtle Geometry is based on computation, on instructions that you can imagine and feel (e.g. how would you draw a circle in Logo? Make one step forward, turn one degree, repeat).

And yeah, Lego named their robotics kits after this book.

Apr 07

Twitter Study: Interview With Bernardo Huberman, HP Social Computing Labs Chief - SVW

Twitter Study: Interview With Bernardo Huberman, HP Social Computing Labs Chief - SVW

Mar 31

The Semantic Web (and what it can deliver for your business)

The Semantic Web (and what it can deliver for your business)

Mar 27

“A few months ago Sarah Palin mockingly asked “How’s that Hopey Changey thing working out for ya?” Great actually, thanks for asking. How’s that whole “Hooked On Phonics thing working out for you?” —

Bill Maher (via soupsoup)

jerry said it well.

(via bijan) (via mikehudack)